LEGENDARY LANCE REVENTLOW SHELBY COBRA CSX2032 GETS HOLLYWOOD STAR TREATMENT
After 58 yrs. A HISTORY MYSTERY has been solved about COBRA CSX2032.
A five year gap in the whereabouts of CSX2032 has been solved. After the car was ordered, built and delivered in Jan of 1963 to Lance Reventlow it disappeared. 5 years went by until it popped up at SCU Lotus Central Foreign Cars in Michigan.
Not only has the history gap figured out, but it was found out that  the car played a pivotal role in the startup of Carroll Shelby’s Cobra Manufacturing plant Shelby American. Without CSX2032 and Lance Reventlow we may not have Cobras and Shelbys today.
After years of talk about making a movie or documentary about the life of Lance Reventlow, is now becoming a reality. A feature length documentary about the life of Lance Reventlow and his involvement with Carroll Shelby and the SHELBY COBRA CSX 2032 car is in the works. A world wide well known Hollywood production company will be the producers of “Legendary Lance Reventlow Cobra CSX2032”.
We have a contract in hand and will share with serious buyers only. Feature full length film documentary is not included in the price of the car. That option is offered to the buyer through the production company.
History of sales for the top Cobras. CSX2000, $13,750,000, Sold Aug 2016.
Carroll Shelby’s personal 1965 427 Cobra Roadster sells at Mecum Jan 2021 for $5.94 Million
1966 Shelby Cobra 427 Super Snake-Barrett-Jackson Sold March 27 2021 for $5 Million
CSX2032 is one of the last Legendary Special Significant Cobra that is for sale.
See CSX2032.com
Ownership of The Lance Reventlow COBRA by Lance has been verified by his best friend Bruce Kessler.
After a serious crash at the 1959 Examiner Grand Prix at Pomona, California, he spent days in a coma. Soon after, he retired from racing.
Kessler came back to California and became a film and television director. He directed many television films and series. One of his earliest efforts was a short film he directed on the Scarab race car for his friend Lance Reventlow called
The Sound of Speed
. As a film and television director, some his credits include
Angels from Hell
,
The Monkees
,
The Flying Nun
,
Mission: Impossible
,
It Takes a Thief
,
Marcus Welby, M.D.
,
The Rockford Files
,
McCloud
,
CHiPs
,
The Greatest American Hero
,
The A-Team
,
Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer
,
Hunter
and
Renegade
, his last directing credit.
The Lance Reventlow Cobra is a true 1 of 1 with all competition and touring options factory installed.
This is one of the most documented and collectible Cobras in the world now offered for sale and verified by Ned
Scudder. Great opportunity to own a rare piece of Shelby American History combined with American
Race History. CSX2032 is a Blue Chip Investment Car that will rise greatly due to the long awaited documentary.
Get in on the ground floor now.
Contact Tony: 847-456-0498 or through CSX2032.com
HISTORY’S VAULT OPENS UP FOR LANCE REVENTLOW AND HIS
LEGENDARY COBRA CSX2032
SHELBY COBRA CSX2032
On Friday, Aug.19, 2016 in Monterey, California, the most coveted, historic, and most valuable
American Sports Car crossed the auction block. It set a US Record for $13,750,000. It was Carroll
Shelby’s CSX2000 which started it all, “the first Cobra”. Without CSX2000, it’s probably a good bet, there
would be no Shelby’s today. It’s probably another good bet, that without the help of the original owner
this Cobra CSX2032, (the legendary “Lance Reventlow”), there may not have been any more Cobra’s
made after CSX2000.
Gone but not forgotten a NEWLY DISCOVERED check proves that Lance Reventlow put Carroll Shelby in
business in Aug of 1962, (2 months before the Cuban Missile Crisis) making him forever a part of SHELBY
American History.
Legendary Lance Reventlow Cobra – CSX2032.com
I am surprised that the story of Lance Reventlow has not been made into a Hollywood movie. It has all
of the elements of a blockbuster: Rich mother (in her time one of the wealthiest women of the world),
one race car driving stepfather (also a prince), and another stepfather, movie star named Cary Grant.
Lance Reventlow’s Scarab
Grant remained friends with Lance after the divorce from Lance’s mother, Barbara Hutton, the heiress
to the Woolworth (the WalMart of it’s day) fortune. Reventlow’s father was a count. His other
stepfather was a prince. Lance inherited the count title.
Lance Graf von Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow, (February 24, 1936 – July 24, 1972) was a British-born
American entrepreneur, racing driver and heir to the Woolworth fortune. Reventlow was the only child
of heiress Barbara Hutton and her second husband Count Kurt Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow. His
stepfathers included actor Cary Grant and Prince Igor Troubetzkoy.
LANCE REVENTLOW EARLY YEARS
Lance Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow was the only child of Danish nobleman Count Kurt Haugwitz-
Hardenberg-Reventlow and American socialite Barbara Hutton. Hutton had inherited the Woolworth
department store fortune and was then one of the wealthiest women in the world. Reventlow was born
at Winfield House in London, restored by his mother and named for her grandfather Frank Winfield
Woolworth. Reventlow’s birth was difficult and his mother almost died during his delivery. As a child, he
struggled with respiratory problems and was asthmatic.
RACING CAREER
In 1948, at age 12, Reventlow was introduced to the world of Grand Prix motor racing when his mother
married Prince Igor Troubetzkoy, who won the Targa Florio that year. In his teenage years, Reventlow’s
money afforded him the latest in exotic cars, which led to his involvement in motor racing.
In Hollywood, Reventlow became friends with fellow auto enthusiast James Dean and competed in club
events around California. On September 30, 1955, he was one of the last people to speak to Dean when
they met on their way to an auto race in Salinas, California. Reventlow said he had coffee with Dean at a
restaurant approximately thirty minutes before Dean was killed in an automobile accident near
Cholame, California while driving his Porsche 550 Spyder.
Reventlow began his racing career in America in the mid-1950s, initially with a Mercedes before moving
to an 1100cc Cooper in 1956. The next year he went to Europe to buy a Maserati, which he crashed
heavily at Snetterton, escaping unhurt. He also briefly drove a Cooper Formula 2 car, before returning
to the United States. His best friend Bruce Kessler, Lance and Warren Olsen came up with the idea to
build the SCARAB, along with Ken Miles. Bruce said that Ken Miles put the GT40 on the table for them
to consider. Lance and Bruce decided to go with the SCARB, Bruce said in hindsight that was a big
mistake, they should have built the GT 40 instead. Lance then set up his own company in Venice,
California, to construct Chevrolet-powered race cars he named Scarab with Phil Remington as chief
engineer. Along with hired driver Chuck Daigh, the two were initially successful in racing. They won the
majority of major sports car events they entered, often in competition with the Cunningham team of
Lister Jaguars. Reventlow had looked at buying a Lister Jaguar, but thought that he could build a better
car. Daigh drove a Scarab to victory in the 1958 Riverside International Grand Prix in California, beating
a field of international race car teams, including the world-famous race car driver Phil Hill and the
Ferrari Team. Carroll Shelby drove a Scarab to first place at Continental Divide Raceways in Castle Rock
in Douglas County, Colorado, where he broke a course record.
His racing team was much talked about for having built the first Formula One race car in America.
Shifting operations overseas to Britain, Reventlow’s team had little success racing the Scarab cars in
Formula One against the new rear-engine race cars. He went back to the drawing board and built a
competitive prototype Scarab rear-engined car, but had become less interested in racing before its
testing was complete. In 1962, after pressures for a divorce by JILL ST JOHN, Reventlow shut down the
operation, flipped the keys to his good friend Carroll then leased the California facilities to Shelby lock
stock and barrell, and quit auto racing altogether.
Reventlow’s organization had constructed a total of eight Scarabs during its existence. In a 1971
interview, Reventlow confirmed that three front-engined Chevy-powered sports cars, three front-
engined formula cars, one rear-engined formula car and one rear-engined sports car were built. Two of
the front-engined formula cars were powered by Reventlow-commissioned engines drawn up by
American racing engine designer Leo Goossen to Reventlow’s specifications, while the third car was
powered by a Goossen-designed and engineered Offenhauser engine. The rear-engined formula was
powered by a modified Buick power plant; this engine and the suspension/brake package were taken
from this car and used on the rear-engined sports car, the last Scarab built.
After Lance decided to build his own car, namely the Scarab. The Scarab was engineered and produced
by the Who’s Who of the United States racing world in the late 1950’s. Lance used many of the same
people who would later work with Carroll Shelby. Carroll Shelby also won at least one race driving a
Scarab.
Road and Track Magazine wrote about the Scarab Mark ll in the February 1959 issue where they
reported that it went from 0-60 in 4.2 seconds: reached 161 MPH in one, and 174 MPH in another car
on the straight at the Riverside race track. They called the Scarab ” the most potent sports racing car in
the world”.
LANCE REVENTLOW PERSONAL LIFE
At the age of 21, Reventlow was given the choice between becoming an American, Danish or British
citizen. He chose American citizenship, saying, “I thought it over for a full 20 seconds.”
At 21 he inherited 25 Million in 1957. His combined worth was said to be 100 Million. That’s almost a
Billion in todays money.
On March 24, 1960, Reventlow married actress Jill St. John in San Francisco. They separated in October
1962. St. John filed for divorce on October 2, 1963, citing extreme cruelty; she stated that Reventlow
called her “stupid and incompetent” in front of others and bullied her into taking part in dangerous
sports. Their divorce was granted on October 30, 1963.
On November 6, 1964, Reventlow married ex-Mouseketeer Cheryl Holdridge in a lavish ceremony in
Hollywood before 600 guests. Reventlow’s mother, Barbara Hutton, could not attend the wedding
because of illness but gave the couple a $500,000, five-bedroom home set on 21 acres in Benedict
Canyon.
In 1972, Reventlow was seeking real-estate developers as partners to build a ski resort in Aspen,
Colorado, where he had a home. He was an experienced pilot, with thousands of hours, rated fully for
IFR on multi-engine planes, but on July 24, 1972 Reventlow was a passenger, scouting locations for real
estate in a Cessna 206. The pilot was an inexperienced 27-year-old student who flew into a blind canyon
and stalled the aircraft while trying to turn around. The plane plunged to the ground, killing all aboard.
LEGENDS LIVE FOREVER
Due to the recent enormous success of the movie FORD VS FERRARI, there has been a renewed new
interest in Collector Cars worldwide. No longer are the Baby Boomer Generation the only ones
interested in the collector car market. That market is growing and continuing to grow with 16-80 plus
year olds.
There was a recent sale of Carroll Shelby’s personal 1965 Cobra for 5.94 Million including auction fees at
the January Mecum Auction.
And even more recent on March 27, 2021
SOLD! – Carroll Shelby’s Super Snake – BARRETT-JACKSON 2021 SCOTTSDALE AUCTION CSX 3015
hammered for an incredible $5 MILLION!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQnvogCBep4
CSX2032 is one of the last Legendary Cobras that is for sale.
See CSX2032.com
Ownership of The Lance Reventlow COBRA by Lance has been verified by his best friend Bruce Kessler.
The Lance Reventlow Cobra is a true 1 of 1 with all competition and touring options factory installed.
This is one of the most documented and collectible Cobras to be offered for sale and verified by Ned
Scudder. Great opportunity to own a rare piece of Shelby American History combined with American
Race History. CSX2032 was in storage and rarely driven after it was built from January 1963 until it was
sold to SCU LOTUS CENTRAL FOREIGN CARS in Michigan.
Truly a museum piece rich in history and importance that Carroll Shelby built for his friend and financer
Lance Reventlow.
Imagine what it would be like if you could put the key in the door of a fully functional car manufacturing
plant with furnished office, parts department, machinery, tools, one of the best racing engineers in the
world and other personnel ready to go. That’s the opportunity Lance Reventlow made to his close
friend Carroll Shelby.
As Carroll Shelby was getting ready to start production of the Shelby Cobra, Lance Reventlow was
closing down Reventlow Automobiles Incorporated (RAI), the builder of the legendary Scarab Sports
Racer. A deal was struck between Reventlow and Shelby. Now Shelby had a plant to build his Cobra’s;
RAI’s former manufacturing facility at 1042 Princeton Dr., Venice, California. Shelby also hired master
fabricator Phil Remington from RAI and also acquired a 1956 Fiat Series 306/2 Grand Prix transporter,
that was used by Reventlow. Shelby leased the building from 1962-1967. During that time he won the
1965 World Sports Car Championship, beating Ferrari, the only American car manufacturer to do so.
Now you can own a piece of American Automotive History and the prestige it immediately brings from
the Car Collector World. Finally after years of talk, there is high level Hollywood Producers now looking
at the reality of making that long awaited movie about Lance Reventlow and his cars, “The Hollywood
Racer”.
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